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Finding a Box for the Multicultural: The Power of Language and the Overcoming Strengths of the Multicultural

Llamas, Jewel (2013-04-24)

With each Census in the United States, the number of citizens who identify with multiple racial or cultural categories has slowly elevated. Nevertheless, this nation still lacks a language with which to identify such ...
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity

Thiessen, Matthew (2010)

<p>In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in ...
Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African-American Girls and Hip-Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club

Woodruff, Jennifer Ann (2009)

<p>This dissertation documents African-American girls' musical practices at a Boys and Girls Club in Durham, NC. Hip-hop is the cornerstone of social exchanges at John Avery, and is integrated into virtually all club ...
Outgroup Similarity as a Source of Cognitive Dissonance: An Investigation of the Turncoat Effect

Hall, Deborah Lee (2010)

<p>A long tradition of social psychological research suggests that perceptions of similarity and common ground can promote more harmonious relations among otherwise diverse social groups. Yet perceived similarity with and ...
People and Identities in Nessana

Stroumsa, Rachel (2008-04-22)

Abstract In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial ...
The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity

Smith, Kyle Richard (2011)

<p>According to the Syriac <italic>Acts of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> ...
Topics in Rational Choice Theory

Akhtar, Sahar Z (2008-04-29)

Rational Choice theory includes a broad body of research that attempts to account for how people act in a variety of contexts, including economic, political and even moral situations. By proposing, most generally, that ...